The public school system was never meant to be about education.
It springs from the Prussian model, which was meant to instill unyielding obedience into the young so they would be good soldiers on the battlefield. Schooling is firstly about signaling, which shaming labels placed on those who are unwilling or unable to conform to the arbitrary dictates of bureaucrats.
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Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom https://amzn.to/32yZa1l
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education https://amzn.to/2x4tcfT
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto https://amzn.to/2X2hNcU
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto https://amzn.to/2x4nkmN
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray https://amzn.to/2wzGoK3
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan https://amzn.to/2x5RjeX
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong By James W. Loewen https://amzn.to/2MFNVfJ
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